Garfunkel and Oates, from flat screen to big stage

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 As actresses, Riki Lindhome, 35, and Kate Micucci, 34, have plenty of television, film and commercial acting credits between them. But together they've hit pay dirt as the comedy-music duo Garfunkel and Oates.

The two teamed up in 2007. "We were always very happy with whatever success level we had," says Lindhome about the duo's climb from the Los Angeles comedy ranks onto the national stage. "Every single step (we've said to each other), 'Can you believe someone is paying us to do this?'"  Read more...

Garfunkel and Oates far from ‘second bananas’

With the voices of angels and the vocabulary of truckers, the women of music-comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates are the type who would make any self-respecting granny reach for her smelling salts.

To wit, their songs boast titles like Sex With Ducks, Pregnant Women are Smug, and Handjob, Blandjob, I Don’t Understand Job. But Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome say it’s that type of raunch that helped set them apart when they founded the duo six years ago.  Read more...

IFC's 'Garfunkel and Oates' Have Some Truth Bombs For Your Friends

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Because it wasn't already great enough that the female comedy-folk duo Garfunkel and Oates are going on a 14-stop live tour come late August, IFC has released seven hilarious "Brutally Honest Video Cards" in honor of National Friendship Day (August 3). The two ladies that make up the laugh-out-loud two-person musical group, Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, are gearing up for the August 7 premiere of their new IFC show, aptly titled Garfunkel and Oates, and they want to make sure that everyone has a special way to let their friends know exactly how they feel about them.  Read more...

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Thank you for all the Twitter love. Sorry we won't be bringing you any more IFC episodes but we have something exciting coming we promise...

— Garfunkel and Oates (@garfunkeloates) March 3, 2015

‘Garfunkel & Oates’ Cancelled By IFC After One Season :(

IFC has opted not to order a second season of comedy series Garfunkel & Oates, which had a 10-episode freshman run last year. The half-hour show featured female comedy-folk duo Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel) and Kate Micucci (Oates), and spotlighted the personal and professional lives of the duo whose career choices – singing satirical and sometimes dirty songs — left them with little in common with their peers, and no one but each other to turn to for support and understanding. The series was produced by Abominable Pictures and executive produced by Lindhome, Micucci and Jonathan Stern. IFC also recently cancelled The Birthday Boys after two seasons.

Garfunkel and Oates Get a TV Show of Their Own

On the Saturday of San Diego's Comic-Con, amid the throngs of cosplayers hovering at the Hilton Bayfront, Garfunkel and Oates — a.k.a. Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci — are being asked to take a selfie with a women in her 50s. The two are more than obliged, but the moment speaks volumes: No longer are Garfunkel and Oates the cult faves of the L.A. alter-comedy scene. They're now mainstream draws. Further bolstering Garfunkel and Oates' popularity at Comic-Con was their cameo at The Bang Bang Theory panel before an audience of 4,800, where they performed their song "Bernadette" from the show.  Read more...

Garfunkle and Oats "If I Didn't Have You (Comic-Con Edition)" 

Demure, Deadpan and Smutty, an Offshoot of Girl Power

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Garfunkel and Oates are Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, a pair of comedians, actresses and songwriters who bear a glancing physical likeness to Art Garfunkel (Ms. Lindhome is tall and blond) and John Oates (Ms. Micucci is short and dark haired).

Naming their act — funny songs, stand-up, web videos and now a television show, “Garfunkel and Oates,” beginning Thursday on IFC — after a pair of famous supporting players signals Ms. Lindhome and Ms. Micucci’s intentions. They practice the comedy of female semi-empowerment, in which confidence (tending toward narcissism) and a still somewhat startling sexual frankness combine with old-fashioned insecurity and self-abasement, all of them generating laughs.               Read more...

Garfunkel and Oates: What the Folk?

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There are a lot of people out there who are adept at mixing comedy and music, but no one does it quite like Garfunkel and Oates, the duo comprised of actresses Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome.  No strangers to comedy, their humorous songwriting partnership happened quite by accident.  "We were friends for a while,” Lindome explains. “We talked about our creative interests and we both wrote songs. It was just sort of a flow of things.”  Read more...

Hey, Ladies!: Achieving the Delightful, Dreamy Look on 'Garfunkel and Oates'

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Cinematographer Jay Hunter has served as director of photography on Garfunkel and Oates since its launch as a web series in 2013. Hunter met Lindhome while shooting Joss Whedon’s 2012 Much Ado About Nothing—on which she played Conrade—and the group became friends. While the black-and-white Shakespeare adaptation was shot with RED Epic cameras, Hunter selected ARRI Alexa for Garfunkel and Oates. “The Alexa is my go-to camera for just about everything,” he comments. “It’s the best looking, most stable, most user-friendly camera that exists right now. No matter what I’m shooting, it’s my number one choice of format these days.”   Read more...